The Performing Arts in Medieval Islam

10.1163/9789004218802

Shadow Play and Popular Poetry in Ibn Daniyal's Mamluk Cairo

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Drawing on medieval Arabic sources and earlier scholarship, this book is a study of the life and work of Ibn Dāniyāl (d. 1310). It also presents the first full English translation of his shadow play "The Phantom.”